Live trivia game show by the founder of Vine

I see hundreds of consumer apps every month and truthfully very few of them feel fresh and new. HQ feels different and one of the best examples of tech elevating traditional TV entertainment.
Truthfully, I have a lot of skepticism about its longevity but it's early and I'm sure @rus and team have some surprises. 😊

Paramesh- Inbound marketer and growth hacker

Introduced live tv games within a mobile app where anyone can be a participant.

Mohammed Rafy- All things Community

They will hit all-time high in 2018.

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Axios

HQ, the live trivia game-show app, tells Axios that it has raised $15 million in new VC funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. Founders Fund led, and was joined by return backer Lightspeed Venture Partners. Why it matters: Because, on Sunday night, HQ had more than 2.1 million people staring at their phone screens for a solid 15 minutes.

The Verge

Perhaps you've noticed your friends or coworkers looking at their phones intently this past week, at about mid-afternoon or late into the evening. Maybe they've been yelling out questions like, "Who won last year's Premier League?" or scrambling to confirm the tallest mountain in the Solar System or gawking at the prospect of knowing which multinational cong…See more

NBC News

Twice a day, like clockwork, diehard trivia fans pull out their phones to play a live game of HQ Trivia with the hope of earning a piece of the jackpot. The free trivia app has become an overnight sensation, thanks in part to its marriage between trivia, live streaming and the allure of earning a cash prize for answering all 12 questions correctly.

Nytimes

It's easy to feel that a strange new future has arrived upon opening the free app for the first time. The game - currently available only on Apple devices, though an Android version is scheduled to arrive around Christmas - features a counter in the corner of the screen that ticks up as people log on to play at 3 p.m.

TechCrunch

"It's a way to give people a chance to have fun, maybe win, maybe learn something new." That's how former Vine co-founder Rus Yusupov describes his new trivia game show app HQ, which feels like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire meets Facebook Live.

A live trivia game show by the founder of Yik Yak

The Q is a live trivia game show where users compete against the world to win real money, available on iOS and Android.

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The Ringer

In the four months that HQ has existed, it has given us many things: thousands of dollars in prizes; a loquacious, bearded "quiz daddy"; and a dystopian twice-a-day ritual. Now, thanks to the opportunism of our hyperaccelerated internet economy, it has also spurred the beginning of what is sure to be a trivia-app boom.

9to5Mac

Will Jamieson, CEO of Stream Live and lead of The Q Trivia, is no stranger to the App Store. Alongside co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, Jamieson helped launch the anonymous chat app Yik Yak in 2013. The social network app quickly gained popularity on college campuses before sparking concerns about cyberbullying on the platform.